migblog

what makes for an interesting schedule is interesting professors; i'm very, very glad that all my professors this semester are a bit on the kooky side. first of all, i actually have professors teaching my classes (unlike last semester when i had one, and the semester before when i had one, and the one beofre that when i didn't even have any). second, i actually like all the classes i'm enrolled in. and third, i know people in all my classes!

my spanish one-oh-two lecturer is pretty cool -- her name is sarah, and she has this cool quirk whenever she speaks spanish that she doesn't roll her r's. it's all retroflex (yeah, i'm being a geek) but it's obvious to the point of endearing. she's very nice, and very cool. cute, to boot.

portuguese one thirty-five is taught by an angolan professor. he wants us to call him 'pepetela' because he wrote his novels in that pen name. he speaks with a different accent, which is a bit unnerving, but he has the tendency to speak the angolan accent without realizing that we're not in angola. then again, we're reading a novel a week, which is going to be a problem.

i have the same professor in portuguese one-oh-three from one-oh-two. clelia, still as funky as ever, in her weird outfits and her songs in portuguese. we'll see how this class goes, since it's more writing-intensive rather than reading-intensive.

professor garrett in linguistics one hundred is so far my favorite this semester. he's very funny, has an amazing sense of humor. he like to make fun of himself, and i like how his point made perfect sense: "you're laughing because you know it's wrong, and you're laughing because it's true."

our lecturer in spanish one twelve is laura, which is weird since she's mexican and she's teaching a spanish culture class. sure, whatever, she's still speaking spanish, but it's a bit weird studying iberian studies with an american professor. i feel somewhat cheated. she like to giggle and go off on random tangents, which is nice, since the material this early in the class is a bit arid anyway.

as for the actual classes, we'll have to wait it out. the material so far for all of them isn't daunting; it's the matter of sticking through until midterm season starts.

and oh yes, lunch time.

posted by Open Source Food @ 11:28 AM